Although most legislation is initiated by the executive branch, the Bundestag considers the legislative function its most important responsibility, concentrating much of its energy on assessing and amending the government's legislative program.

The prime minister's party will normally have a majority in the House of Representatives and party discipline is exceptionally strong in Australian politics, so passage of the government's legislation through the House of Representatives is mostly a formality.

As early as 1483, Richard III recognised the value of literary works by specifically exempting them from the government's protectionist legislation.

The nationalisation of the canal system in 1948 did not result in the towpaths becoming public rights of way, and subsequent legislation, such as the Transport Act of 1968, which defined the government's obligations to the maintenance of the inland waterways for which it was now responsible, did not include any commitment to maintain towpaths for use by anyone.

A further 16. 6 % was sold by the Commonwealth in September 1999 ; but the sale of the government's remaining 50. 1 % stake required legislation.

In order for the line of succession for Canada to remain parallel to those of the other Dominions, Buchan, as Governor-in-Council, gave the government's consent to the British legislation formalising the abdication, and ratified this with finality when he granted Royal Assent to the Canadian Succession to the Throne Act in 1937.

Indeed, in 2005, the U. S. Congress issued an apology for the federal government's failure to enact lynching legislation to protect blacks in that era.

To protest the Progressive Conservative government's legislation that would amalgamate the municipalities of Metro Toronto into the city of Toronto, the small New Democratic caucus introduced 11, 500 amendments to the megacity bill, created on computers with mail merge functionality.

While the strikes were largely over by February 1979, the government's inability to contain the strikes earlier helped lead to Margaret Thatcher's Conservative victory in the 1979 general election and legislation to restrict unions.

Disagreeing with Fair Voting BC's decision to devote the movement's energies to backing the new BC Liberal government's plan to move forward with the Citizens ' Assembly process it had developed in 1997, Carr founded a rival electoral reform organization called Free Your Vote to utilize the province's citizen initiative legislation ( which technically allows citizens to force referendums on legislation if they gather a sufficient number of signatures ).

* The House of Lords shall not oppose legislation from the House of Commons that was a part of the government's manifesto ( the Salisbury Convention ).

Suspicions have been exacerbated by the refusal of the government to issue a white paper on the legislation, causing groups such as Amnesty International to declare that it " has grave concerns about the proposals in the government's consultation document and the lack of a draft white paper which means that the public still do not know how the legislation will actually be worded ".

To the consternation of the opposition Conservatives, Bulyea prorogued the legislation before this new government's strength could be tested by a vote of confidence.

In December 2002, a coroner's inquest into the death of Kimberly Rogers recommended numerous changes to the government's welfare legislation, which Community and Social Services Minister Brenda Elliott dismissed as unnecessary tinkering with a system that " was working effectively ".

In July 2010, May presented the House of Commons with her detailed proposals for a fundamental review of the previous Labour Party government's security and counter-terrorism legislation including " stop and search " powers and her intention to review the 28 day limit on detaining terrorist suspects without charge.

On 28 July 2010, May proposed to review the previous Labour Party government's anti-social behaviour legislation signalling the abolition of the " Anti-Social Behaviour Order " ( ASBO ).

On 2 July 2010, May stated she would be supporting the previous Labour government's anti-discrimination laws enshrined in the Equality Act 2010 though she had previously opposed this legislation.

This included the making of threats to the independent Rail Regulator that if he intervened to defend the company against the government's attempts to force it into railway administration-a special status for insolvent railway companies-the government would introduce emergency legislation to take the regulator under direct political control.

The previous government's industrial relations legislation, WorkChoices, was largely dismantled, Australia's remaining Iraq War combat personnel were withdrawn, and the " Australia 2020 Summit " was held.

Harris successfully broke the Nauruan government's deadlock when he was able to pass legislation through parliament in 2003.

He was the first Quebec premier to defend the principle of provincial autonomy within the confederation, campaigning to abolish the federal government's claimed right to veto provincial legislation.

But the dispute was made moot when federal legislation in the form of the Indian Removal Act exercised the federal government's legal power to handle the whole affair.

* In 1948 the High Court of Australia found that the Chifley government's legislation to nationalise Australia's private banks was unconstitutional.

Gandhi with Lord and Lady Mountbatten, 1947Given the British government's recommendations to grant independence quickly, Mountbatten concluded that a united India was an unachievable goal and resigned himself to a plan for partition, creating the independent nations of India and Pakistan.

The government's acceptance of foreign aid during the 1980s, in lieu of economic growth sparked by private investment, allowed it to ignore the necessity of creating new jobs.

Referring to the U. S. government's treatment of immigrants in the wake of September 11, the statement accuses the U. S. government of creating " two classes of people: those to whom the basic rights of the U. S. legal system are at least promised, and those who now seem to have no rights at all ," and evokes " the infamous concentration camps for Japanese-Americans in World War II.

" Lack of proper oversight and control of these foundations has also hampered the government's efforts in creating a comprehensive, central and unified social security system in the country, undertaken since 2003.

By the time of Emperor Jing, however, they were already creating problems by their refusal to follow the imperial government's laws and orders.

In 2009, the organization published a report criticising the Chinese government's policy towards Tibet, alleging that propaganda is being used to mask failings in its Tibet policy, such as ethnic inequality and creating " an aristocracy of corrupt and abusive government officials ".

Environmental concerns have led to the cessation of channelization on a widespread basis ; the federal government's " no net loss " policy regarding wetlands means that further channelization must be offset by creating new wetlands, called " mitigation lands ", elsewhere.

Some believe that the increase of the local government's participation in creating the policy will lead to greater ownership of the loan programs, thus better fiscal policy.

During this time she was a driving force behind the government's policy of creating New Order Mining Rights which ended a period where big mining firms which controlled nearly all South Africa's minerals reserves, were able to hold mining rights to them in perpetuity.

Inflation, at 164. 3 % in June 2005, increased to 254. 8 % in July 2005, creating a speed-bump on the road to the government's goal of bringing inflation down to 80 % by year end.

The plan called for demolition of most of the existing structures north of Pennsylvania Avenue, but exercise of the government's powers of eminent domain would require ( it was believed ) creating a special designation for the area.

The government's policies of supporting large military and internal security forces and of allocating resources to key supporters of the regime have exacerbated shortages.

Lindalino's rebellion against Laputa is an allegory of Ireland's revolt against Great Britain, and Great Britain's ( meaning the Whig government's ) violent foreign and internal politics ( see Jonathan Swift for his political career ).

The continued relevance of industrial nationalisation ( a centrepiece of the post-War Labour government's programme ) had been a key point of contention in Labour's internal struggles of the 1950s and early 1960s.

André de Staercke was one of the most important witnesses to the Belgian government's internal crisis of 1940.

A first cousin of former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, he became notorious in the 1980s and 1990s for his role in the Iraqi government's campaigns against internal opposition forces, namely the ethnic Kurdish rebels of the north, and the Shia religious dissidents of the south.

The Chinese government's internal media publication system follows a strict hierarchical pattern designed to facilitate party control.

Much of the debate resulted from an internal struggle between advocates of a Cuban perestroika, i. e. the use of market mechanisms and the liberalization of strictures on free speech and dissent and others who argued that speedy reforms would undercut the unity of the nation and the party's political dominance and possibly lead to the government's collapse as had happened to Communist states in Eastern Europe.

* The Soviet government's structure prevented objective or accurate pictures of internal and external reality.

Prisoners were being drawn into the Soviet penal system in large numbers during the initial period of Kolyma's development, most notably from the so-called anti-Kulak campaign and the government's internal war to force collectivization on the USSR's peasantry.

* The Soviet government's structure prohibited objective or accurate pictures of internal and external reality.

The Minister of Public Works and Government Services () is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government's " common service organization " ( Public Works and Government Services Canada ), an expansive department responsible for the internal servicing and administration of the federal government.

As of March 2006, government projections were in line with the official energy policy of the United Kingdom ) so that, by 2010, the UK will have reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by about 15-18 % below 1990 levels, thus missing the government's internal target but achieving its Kyoto Protocol target, with a projected reduction of emissions from the basket of all greenhouse gases ( including carbon dioxide ) of about 23-25 % from 1990 levels.

Public Works and Government Services Canada ( formerly referred to as the Department of Public Works and Government Services ) is the department of the government of Canada with responsibility for the government's internal servicing and administration.

Details are laid down in the government's rules for internal procedures ( Geschäftsordnung ).

It was formed following the Ghanaian government's liberalisation of internal cocoa marketing in 1992, which, farmers feared, would lead to the entry of private companies into the market with whom they would be unable to compete.

With his strong measures against the unrests, the British gained more confidence in the local government's handling of internal security.

The opposition of presidents to single-party governments, internal dissent within the PRP, the party's almost non-existent internal discipline, and its constant and irrational desire to group together and lead all republican forces made any government's task practically impossible.

At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Skobelev and Chkheidze tentatively supported the war effort while remaining critical of the Russian government's internal policies and prosecution of the war.